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Line 1: {{trope}} [[File:refuge.png\|link=All Star Batman and Robin\|frame\| ~~<small>~~ It's [[Crosses the Line Twice\|so absurdly offensive it's hilarious]]! There's a [[Author Appeal\|scantily dressed]] [[Drop -Dead Gorgeous\|corpse]], an [[Complete Monster\|unrepentant murderer]] [[Monster Clown\|who thinks this murder was hilarious]], a [[~~Transsexual\|~~transgender ~~Nazi~~]] ~~wearing~~ [[Those Wacky Nazis\|~~swastika~~Nazi]] wearing [[Stripperiffic\|swastika pasties]], [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking\|and]] [[The Joker]]'s [[Out of Character\|scowling]]! ~~</small>~~ ]] Line 7: Characters can get away with outrageous acts by making them overblown to the point of absurdity. Toning them down to realistic levels would be more offensive, either to logic or to morality. This is because, for works and characters both, pushing things past a certain level automatically knocks things into [[Genre Blindness]]. If it's genre convention, then it's okay. But if it's toned down to moderation, then the audience will think about ~~it -- and~~it—and [[Fridge Logic\|the thought]] makes it cease to be okay. The name comes from a quote from the Roman historian Tacitus (''Annals'', book XI ch. 26): {{quote\| "Crime, once exposed, has no refuge but in audacity."}} This isn't [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]. [[Up to Eleven\|This is crashing the crap through the front doors and out the back doors of the radar installation in an armored car with sunglasses-wearing flaming skull decals on every flat surface and a]] [[Hieronymus Bosch]] [[Up to Eleven\|reproduction on the door, hood-mounted machine guns blazing, Motörhead blasting on the jury-rigged PA system, the tires leaving tracks painting sex and violence on the floor and walls and one arm hanging out of the window making a rude hand gesture.]] Line 21: Related to [[Gallows Humor]]. ~~----~~ ~~== Subpages ==~~ * [[Refuge in Audacity/Advertising\|Advertising]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Anime And Manga\|Anime And Manga]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Comedy\|Comedy]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Comics\|Comics]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Fanfic\|Fanfic]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Film\|Film]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Jokes\|Jokes]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Literature\|Literature]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Live Action Television\|Live Action Television]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Music\|Music]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Professional Wrestling\|Professional Wrestling]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Radio\|Radio]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Tabletop Games\|Tabletop Games]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Theater\|Theater]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Video Games\|Video Games]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Web Comics\|Web Comics]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Web Original\|Web Original]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Western Animation\|Western Animation]] * [[Refuge in Audacity/Real Life\|Real Life]] {{examples on subpages}} ---- ''And remember, they don't insult anyone... they insult '''''EVERYONE'''''!'' {{reflist}} [[Category:~~Trope~~{{PAGENAME}}]]▼ [[Category:Absurdity Ascendant]] [[Category:Tropes of Legend]] [[Category:Laws and Formulas]] [[Category:The Plan]] [[Category:~~index~~Hentai Tropes]] ~~[[Category:Refuge In Audacity]]~~ ▲[[Category:Trope]]